Project Gutenberg is a website dedicated to making classical literature available on the internet. I actually came across this site quite a while ago when looking for works on Arsene Lupine. For all you Ocean 11, To Catch a Thief, and MI lovers out there, he was a classy thief and disguise extraordinaire way before movies popularized Clooney, Grant, and Cruise. Japanese anime, which is quick to reference and adapt interesting things from other parts of the world (including, for example, Sun Tzu’s furinkazan), even has an animation called Lupin the Third.
In any case, I was pleasantly surprised when I came across the site again while looking for an online version of Art of War. Even though occasionally I am nostalgic about the “old days,” when people actually spend more times moving about than sitting in front of a computer screen, at times like these I am grateful for the internet and how it has spread knowledge and news across the globe. I wonder if, when the printing press first came out, people were nostalgic about the oral tradition?
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